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Éric de Bisschop
French seafarer
Éric de Bisschop (October 21,[1] 1891 – August 30, 1958) was a French seafarer, famous for his travel from Honolulu to France aboard the Polynesian sailboat Kaimiloa.[2][3][4][5][6]
He spent most of his adult life in the Pacific Ocean, notably in Honolulu (1935–1937 and 1941–1947) and in French Polynesia (1947–1956); he was not simply a sea adventurer but had a deep interest in the Pacific and its inhabitants, whose history he tried to study.
Eric de bisschop biography of martin
Biography
Early life
He was born in Aire-sur-la-Lys (Pas-de-Calais).[7] Trained in a Jesuite secondary school then as a sailor, he commanded a patrol boat in the English Channel in 1914–1915, then was transferred to the air force and sustained a serious plane accident (1917).
China and the Fou Po
After the War, he went to China in 1927. There in 1931 he met the man who was to be his teammate for the seven next yea